Internet Fax Number
by Matt Gerchow
The Internet is becoming part of most business plans, especially given its ability to help a company market itself. With cloud technology becoming more and more prevalent, companies are taking advantage that World Wide Web is almost everywhere. This also means that earlier technologies are being looked at again to see if they can be made more relevant to today's needs. One of these options is the fax machine, used to quickly get a document from one office to another via phone lines. With the web, it is possible to use an Internet fax number in order to do the same thing.
The process is pretty simple. The document is filled out by hand or typed into a template. If it was filled out, then it is scanned in. Generally it is then converted into a PDF file and then faxed. Although e-mailing it to someone is an option, some companies prefer a paper trail be created so as to better track problems down later and so prefer a fax to be sent to an office rather than remain as a purely digital document. In this case the document may be either sent directly to a fax machine or to a service that acts as a fax machine and then downloaded and printed as desired.
The advantage to this is that the end-user does not need an actual fax machine. Because he is not tied down to a location with a phone line and some sort of signal switch, he is able to go anywhere he can access the Internet, enabling him to accept the faxes anywhere as well. This can be a great way to send information to a hotel or an out-of-the-way place where information is needed but a fax machine cannot be used. This helps send your representative far afield in search of new customers.
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The process is pretty simple. The document is filled out by hand or typed into a template. If it was filled out, then it is scanned in. Generally it is then converted into a PDF file and then faxed. Although e-mailing it to someone is an option, some companies prefer a paper trail be created so as to better track problems down later and so prefer a fax to be sent to an office rather than remain as a purely digital document. In this case the document may be either sent directly to a fax machine or to a service that acts as a fax machine and then downloaded and printed as desired.
The advantage to this is that the end-user does not need an actual fax machine. Because he is not tied down to a location with a phone line and some sort of signal switch, he is able to go anywhere he can access the Internet, enabling him to accept the faxes anywhere as well. This can be a great way to send information to a hotel or an out-of-the-way place where information is needed but a fax machine cannot be used. This helps send your representative far afield in search of new customers.
Test drive RingCentral and fax free for 30 days